Category Archives: 99%

When I first became aware of Occupy Wall Street, I thought it was laughable. A group of people with no clear common goal, staging a protest against anything and everything. How is that going to accomplish anything? But it’s not only lasting, it’s spreading. Contrary to my initial belief, maybe disorganized unfocused unhappiness with the status quo really is the one thing 99% of us can agree on. OK, there’s far less than a 99% approval rating of the protests, but I think there’s a broad base of sympathy.

Three things that I think need saying:

1) The 1% seem to not really be paying them any mind. I wonder if they’ll keep making light of the situation until the guillotines are constructed. Ah, but the protests will probably remain peaceful and ergo really not get very much serious attention.

2) The conservative talking heads are largely (all?) dragging out the very tired and very untrue “un-
American” argument. Give it a rest, guys. Nobody with half a brain believes that protesting is un-American. The United States of America was formed the day a bunch of protestors drew up the Declaration of Independence.

3) There seem to be a significant number of folks online sitting on their asses making fun of these people. These people who, I might point out, got off their asses to go do something in an effort to make the world a better place. Think about that before you say anything further. Get-off-your-ass activism > sit-on-your-ass derision.